a small wire or device inside a piece of electrical equipment that breaks and stops the current if the flow of electricity is too strong 熔斷器；保險絲 Extra ExamplesTopics Engineeringc2Make sure that the correct fuse is fitted. 確保安裝了正確的保險絲。 When the machine was switched on it blew a fuse. 啓動機器時保險絲燒斷了。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- 5-amp
- 10-amp
- 13-amp
- …
- change
- replace
- blow
- …
- blow
- wire
- box
- (North American English also fuze)
a long piece of string or paper that is lit to make a bomb or a firework explode 導火線；導火索 Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- short
- long
- slow
- …
- set
- light
- (North American English also fuze)
a device that makes a bomb explode when it hits something or at a particular time 引信；信管；雷管 He set the fuse to three minutes. 他把引信設定爲三分鐘起爆。 The bombs inside were on a one-hour fuse. 炸彈内裝有一小時起爆的引信。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- short
- long
- slow
- …
- set
- light
Word Originnoun sense 1 late 16th cent.: from Latin fus- ‘poured, melted’, from the verb fundere. noun senses 2 to 3 mid 17th cent.: from Italian fuso, from Latin fusus ‘spindle’.
Idioms
blow a fuse
- (informal)
to get very angry 大怒；暴跳如雷
have/be on a short fuse
to tend to get angry quickly and easily 動辄發火；性情暴躁；脾氣不好